Duane michals

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph...

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new...

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.